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Town Hall Concert Series performance Monday at First Mennonite

Diem Lafortune, a Toronto musician, will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19, at First Mennonite Church, in a Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.

LaFortune is a 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year nominee by the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

According to Chappell-Dick, “Her album Beauty and Hard Times is a varied collection including Acadian fiddle tunes, Celtic, prairie Cree drums, and the accordion and strings-fuelled tunes of the Jews and Romany in Eastern Europe.”

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Final 3/50 draw

Julie Stratton (left) holds the basket while Aphaphanh Nussbaum picks three winners in the final 3/50 Project this year. The winners and stores where they entered the contest are Jackie Fry (The Food Store, Greg's Pharmacy, Luke's); Cindy Tenwalde (Shirley's, Et Cetera, Ten Thousand Villages) and Jeanne Wehri (Spectrum Salon, Town and Country Flowers and Communty Market). CLICK HERE FOR 3/50 DETAILS. The program will return next fall.

Abandoned gas station and restaurant on SR 103 on village radar

Discussion of the abandoned gas station and restaurant on State Route 103 were among discussion points at the Jan. 15 Bluffton Airport Advisory Committee meeting.

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Bluffton string musicians have successful Saturday

Solo and Ensemble Adjudicated Event was held on Saturday, Jan. 17,  at Lima Senior High School. Congratulations to the following Bluffton students:

Class "A"
Mark Bixel - Violin Solo - Superior
Mark Bixel - Piano Solo - Superior

Class "B"
Isaac Andreas - Violin Solo - Superior
Tad Steiner - Viola Solo - Superior
String Quartet - Superior -  Mark Bixel, Sarah Siders, Emma Woodruff, Jack Neff

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Bluffton men take down Transy for second straight win

January 17, 2015
By: Griffin Kuras, sports information assistant

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Bluffton women fall to #19 Transy 87-72

By: Ryan Schadewald, sports information assistant

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BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Transylvania Pioneers were just too much for the Bluffton Beavers to handle, as they earned an 87-72 victory on Saturday, Jan. 17. The 19th-ranked Pioneers kept their undefeated HCAC mark intact, improving to 8-0 (13-1 overall) behind a 27-point effort from Katelyn Smith. The Beavers fell to 10-5 and 5-3 in the HCAC.

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